Amitabh Bachchan in Mahesh Manjrekar directed play

MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan played a role in Mahesh Manjrekar‘s film Struggler. Stuck in some technical hassles for five years, the film is now ready for release.
But to fill the gap, Manjrekar has deviced a Marathi play based on the film and titled it Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar that will have Bachchan play himself, albeit not in person.

Bachchan will be speaking to the play‘s main protagonist played by Siddharth Jadhav, from a screen image which will be flashed at every performance of the play.

Incidentally, the play will be in the form of an ongoing political comment with the politics changing in every performance according to the current headlines.

The first staging of Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar will focus on Rahul Gandhi‘s comment during the Bihar election campaign to the effect that Maharashtra is prosperous today because of Biharis.